Reboot!
November 2008
Well, the pictures from the new Star Trek movie are beginning to come out, and the old guard of Star Trek fans are beginning to freak out:
That's not the bridge!
Those aren't the uniforms!
That picture makes Kirk and Spock look gay!
What's wrong with Chekov's hair?
Well, duh!!!
I've said all along this was a reboot of Star Trek, and if you've thought otherwise and are just realizing it, then get over it. My question is why bother calling it Star Trek XI? It's really Star Trek I (albeit Mark 2). The visuals don't fit in with anything we've seen in any incarnation of Star Trek, and that's fine. In all honesty, it reminds me of the 1998 remake of Lost in Space with holographic controls and the like. This is a completely new, re-imaging of Star Trek, and whether or not it succeeds will be a question decided not by fans, but by the average theater-goer.
I felt all along they should've gone 100 years beyond Star Trek: The Next Generation's timeframe and set the new production there. But the Powers That Be wanted Kirk, Spock and McCoy back. They thought they could recapture the original without Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley with a new slate of actors. They thought they could do a Batman or a James Bond-type series and just reinvent the thing and that the fans wouldn't care about the details...
They're wrong.
Randy
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